Between Science and Architecture: Exhibiting Science and Technology in Interwar Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985921%3A_____%2F25%3A00618961" target="_blank" >RIV/67985921:_____/25:00618961 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00637" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00637</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00637" target="_blank" >10.1162/posc_a_00637</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Between Science and Architecture: Exhibiting Science and Technology in Interwar Europe
Original language description
Museums and exhibitions of science and technology have received considerable attention in recent historiography. However, little has been done to look beyond individual localities and national borders. Using Yehuda Elkana’s concept of “images of knowledge,” this article shows how a comparison of four interwar projects located across Europe – in Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Switzerland – helps to highlight commonalities in the understanding of science at the time. Although these exhibition projects were located in different political systems and their proponents superficially presented irreconcilable ideas about science, their ideas about progress or the need to overcome national and disciplinary boundaries show a preponderance of similarities. However, the political-ideological divide is visible in the way they conceive of the relationship between science and society. Finally, by looking at how images of knowledge were co-produced at the interface of science, architecture, and politics, this article argues for a broadening of the source base to include non-scientific and non-human actors.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Perspectives on Science
ISSN
1063-6145
e-ISSN
1530-9274
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
31
Pages from-to
127-157
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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